11 Aug
2013
11 Aug
'13
12:30 p.m.
On Sun, 11 Aug 2013, Fred Cisin wrote:
Once you find the track, then you can read easily. The
track is pretty
normal. But the track positioning is 170TPI! (in its native mode).
It can also do 48,96,100 TPI, and could probably, with no real effort,
read disks with defective radial alignment!
The question of the hour is how one might properly format new media for
the drive. I have exactly one pack with a few funky sectors on one of the
diskettes. I'm guessing the vendor must have had a custom jig to do the
servo writing.
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